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...School Professor Laurence Tribe: "That is a formula for doing nothing." Individual discrimination is difficult and costly to prove; under most affirmative-action plans, whole classes of minorities get preference over whites in hiring and advancement, regardless of whether they have been personally discriminated against. The rationale is that drastic steps are needed to overcome centuries of racial bias. If the court follows its own reasoning in future cases, sweeping affirmative-action plans could be struck down. As a result of the Memphis case, said Blackmun in his Cosmos Club talk, "affirmative action was pretty well interred...
...JUST WHAT was Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko trying to tell us when he wore grey flannel to his session with President Reagan? Was that a sign that the Soviets were willing to accept drastic reductions in vodka stockpiles--only, of course, in return for equivalent cuts in U.S. Gold Medalists? Had he been able to convince President Reagan to countenance competing assymetries--that is to acknowledge that the Soviet lead in vodka did not amount to first-strike capability, but was instead neatly balanced off by, at least this year, American Olympic athletes...
Before we insist on such a drastic moral standard, we should ask ourselves not only whether it is practical but whether we are willing to apply it to our own lives. How many of us have examined the purchases we make to see whether they come from companies that do business in or with Sough Africa? How many students have inquired whether their tuitions are paid in part from the dividends of companies with a South Africa subsidiary? For that matter, how many of us have stopped buying goods or using funds that can be traced to Guatemala, EI Salvador...
Despite criticisms of interference by Control and the drastic positions of the initial scenario, most people felt they had learned a lot through the simulation...
Then he continued, "And we should try to quarantine Nicaragua if it uses force outside of its borders." A military quarantine is generally considered an act of war, and it is a far more drastic step than any so far advocated by Reagan, making Mondale sound more hawkish than his opponent. Mondale twice amended the answer in later remarks, saying he had meant that a quarantine would be a legitimate response to the establishment of a Soviet or Cuban military base in Nicaragua, and then only as an "option" to be used in consultation with U.S. allies in the region...